The Kate Middleton Situation Was Already a Mess. The Royals Have Now Made It a Permanent Crisis.

It's been just over a week since Kate Middleton, the internet's favorite "missing person," claimed that a photoshopped image of her with her children on U.K. Mother's Day was edited by her, for unspecified reasons. Then, on Monday, we had our first recorded sighting of the princess, out shopping with Prince William at the Royal Farms Windsor Farm Shop, near Windsor Castle. The video was released by TMZ and the Sun, and stills from it were plastered on the front pages of all the British tabloids Tuesday. Supposedly, it was taken by a 40-year-man, Nelson Silva, who lives nearby and was quoted in TMZ as saying: "Kate looked happy and relaxed. They look happy just to be able to go to a shop and mingle.